Newsletter 33

		Content

	01	CTM 2023 Third Programme Announcement

	02	CTM 2023 Passes and Tickets

	03	Transmediale x CTM Collaborative Programme

	04	Refuge Worldwide x CTM

	05	Spatial Live x CTM

	06	Collaboration with KW Institute for Contemporary Art

	07	CTM 2023 Partners

	01	CTM 2023 Third Programme Announcement


	CTM Festival 2023 – Portals, logo visual Design: VOJD

New highlights and collaborations complete CTM Festival 2023’s programme. A multi-layered collaboration with sister festival transmediale highlights several multi-disciplinary projects that expand and critique technologies, as well as a night of ritualistic noise and post-punk digital mayhem. With longstanding partner MONOM, an evening dedicated to newly-commissioned immersive soundworks that explore interplays between analogue and digital instrumentation will be presented in 4DSOUND. A first-time partnership with KW Institute for Contemporary Art will bridge art and music worlds with a multidisciplinary performance.

The festival will take place 27 January to 5 February 2023 at multiple Berlin venues, including Berghain, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, silent green, and more. With the Portals theme, CTM 2023 aims to highlight the potentials of sound and music as gateways to other realities that give access to specific modes of experience, histories, communities, and speculative futures.

Information on the festival’s discourse programme and workshops will follow in the first week of January.

Announcement highlights include confirmed performances by:

bela (KR)
Daniel Blumberg (UK)
Dreamgirls (IE)
Espectra Negra (MX/DE)
Hekla (IS)
Iceboy Violet (UK)
Jana Woodstock (UA)
Jennifer Walshe & Jon Leidecker (INT)
Killa & Monibi (INT)
Nico Adomako (DE)
Richard Akingbehin (UK/NG)
Vieze Meisje (BE)
Wiegedood (BE)
Xzavier Stone (CH/DE)

WIDOWS showcase featuring Assyoutii (EG/DE), BAE.CON. (DE), BLK SLK (US/DE), Creo en todo (CL/DE), DJ hot bitch (DE), Geisha online (CL/DE), Lamb (US/DE), Makossiri (KE/GE)

The event »Spatial Live x CTM 2023« at MONOM with newly conceived performances in 4DSOUND by Aleksandra Słyż pres »Softness, Flashes, Floating Rage« feat Judith Hamann and Gerard Lebik (INT), Andrea Belfi (IT/DE), and Hüma Utku (TU/DE)

And a partner event at Kunstwerke featuring Alexis Blake (US/NL) with mobilegirl (DE), Sofia Borges (PT/DE), and Stefanie Egedy (BR/DE)

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	02	CTM 2023 Passes and Tickets

Festival passes and tickets to most festival events are on sale in limited quantities. Festivalgoers can choose between the CTM Pass, which grants access to most of the festival’s events, or the Connect Pass which offers additional access to transmediale festival programming. Tickets to further events will become available in January.

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	03	Transmediale x CTM Collaborative Programme


	trasmediale 2023 »a model, a map, a fiction« key visual Image courtesy of transmediale

A multi-layered collaboration with sister festival transmediale highlights several multi-disciplinary projects that expand and critique technologies, as well as a night of ritualistic noise and post-punk digital mayhem.

The festivals' collaboration includes a two-night performance by Jennifer Walshe and Jon Leidecker that explores the paradoxes of scale in our current socio-economic environment, and a programme at Berghain Säule which features a series of live sets somewhere between ritualistic noise, post-punk, digital deconstructions, and gabber, each with a unique performative edge that conjures portals to distinct worlds and fictions.

A unique closing concert, to be announced in early January, will explore fun, horrors and survival in today’s collapsing ecosystems and information environments.

	04	Refuge Worldwide x CTM


	Refuge Worldwide studio Photo: Refuge Worldwide

Refuge Worldwide and CTM renew their partnership fora second year, to present daily radio shows with festival artists over CTM’s 10 days, a DJ workshop at Refuge’s studio, and a dedicated dancefloor at RSO.Berlin.

	05	Spatial Live x CTM


	MONOM space, Berlin Photo: Becca Crawford

MONOM and CTM continue their longstanding collaboration with an evening of commissioned works newly-created within the 4DSOUND system. All of the artists performing this evening show a fascination with the physicality of sound, and of the potential in blending and extending the possibilities of acoustic and electronic instruments and sounds. The concert is not included in CTM and Connect festival passes, a separate ticket is needed to attend. With artists: Aleksandra Słyż feat Judith Hamann, and saxophonist Gerard Lebik, Andrea Belfi, Hüma Utku.

	06	Collaboration with KW Institute for Contemporary Art


	Alexis Blake »Crack Nerve Boogie«, 2019. TENT, Rotterdam, Niederlande, 2019 Photo: Diana Oliveira

KW Institute for Contemporary Art is pleased to present the performance »Crack Nerve Boogie Swerve« by Alexis Blake during CTM 2023’s opening weekend.

Alexis Blake’s multidisciplinary practice brings together visual art, dance, and performance. She perceives the body as an archive of embodied knowledge and investigates how women’s bodies are represented, which she critically examines, questions, disrupts, and renegotiates. The performance of »Crack Nerve boogie Swerve« brings together three musicians—producer and DJ mobilegirl, sub-bass explorer Stefanie Egedy, and percussionist Sofia Borges—and six performers from a variety of dance backgrounds—breakdance, hip hop, house, waving, Afro-fusion, contemporary, and ballet.

Holders of the CTM 2023 Pass and the transmediale+CTM 2023 Connect Pass can purchase reduced-price tickets.

	07	CTM 2023 Partners

Funded by
Senate Department of Culture and Europe | Goethe-Institut | Auswärtiges Amt | »dive in. Programme for Digital Interactions« of the German Federal Cultural Foundation with funding of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) through the »Neustart Kultur« programme | NEUSTART KULTUR, Initiative Musik, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media | Fonds TURN2 of the Federal Cultural Foundation of Germany | Musikfonds e.V.